Does wrestling really OWN the traditional arts?

This is only a question ive wondered about for a while now.If you learned and train a traditional martial art,which also includes weapons,why would any of the traditional martial arists go fist to fist with a more powerful(muscular) oppenent?Isnt that wasting half of your training?Most wrestling,BBJ,and other gyms dont teach how to defend half of the weapons we use.Screw being nice,if i had to fight im bringing my weapons.There are so many things than would give such stylists a really hard time.Swords,spears,hell even butterfly knives.Why fight fist to fist?So why do all the TMA's try to justify they can beat a stronger hand to hand system,screw it,use your damn weapon training.It sure worked on the battle field.

You fight with your fists because anything more will almost certainly land you in jail unless your opponent is also armed. It's not about mean or nice, it's about survival, which includes your legal survival.

As to wrestling owning tma... Most tma guys don't train worth a flip, so yeah, a competant wrestler's gonna mete out some cold justice on his tma ass. However, if you do karate, jujutsu, or even v/wing ts/chun, AND you train realistically against varying opponents in varying situations, as well as testing yourself agianst other styles, you should do fine against the same ol every day wrestler.

In short, your forms won't beat a wrestler, your theories won't beat a wrestler, and your chi damn sure won't beat a wrestler.
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Much of the reason grappling beats traditional striking in a ring is that the entire format of the contest gives an advantage to the grappler, because his techniques are more readily adaptable to submitting an opponent, whereas a striker, restrained not only from the much maligned palm strikes to the nose and eye rakes, is also robbed of other potentially lethal attacks to vulnerable targets, whereas the wrestler is free to use any weapon in his arsenal against any legal target--I find not being able to break a man's wrist no fair trade-off for not being able to pull his hair back and chop him in the throat in terms of gauging the effectiveness of an art in uncontrolled conditions.

Getting closer back to the original topic, I think if you get into a fight carrying numchucks, it's going to look bad in front of a jury, especially if your attacker's lawyer is skilled at making him look like the victim who mistakenly enraged someone with a hair-trigger temper and severe lack of restraint.

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No holds barred, anything goes. Hard to pull that head back and chop the throat when you are mounted and receiving numerous punches to the face and body.

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"When we go to the ground, you are in my world. The ground is the ocean, I am the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim." RCJ Machado

Originally Posted by Sifu Rudy Abel

"Just what makes a pure grappler think he can survive with an experienced striker. Especially if that striker isn't following any particular rule set and is well aware of what the grapplers strategies are".

most traditionalists are ill equipped to deal with 'shoot' and grapples. but a little distinction needs to made here.

the traditional arts that focus purely/primarily on striking without utilizing chinna and 'bodylocking' work, are the ones who suffer from this vulnerability.

simply because they are unfamiliar with the technology. a western boxer would be in the same category.

on the other hand, many arts have a strong emphasis on grappling and control of structure.

oh btw, haven't you guys figured out yet that you need to know how to strike and grapple in a cohesive and cosupportive method? all of this ranting about striking v.s. grappling indicates that you have yet to realize the true nature of systemized martial training.

i can fight upright to the ground and up the nearest tree if need be. i throw dirt, bricks, and knives. i use jumping, rolling, tackling, combos, flurries, and a strident desire to break your focking spine in two as my system. if i find that i dont simply outclass you, which is normally the case, then i will cheat, lie, and steal to win.

the real bullshido is this mentality of this v.s. that. rampant around here.

If I have a weapon it's going to be a gun. If I don't have a gun, it's because I can't have a weapon in that place/circumstance. So if we're in a place where you can have your butterfly swords, I'm shooting you. And if were're not, then you'd better know how to fight on the ground.

And Merc, could you pull out anti-grappling arguments that are any more cliche' (and answered a hundred times)? I mean, do you really believe that stuff?

LOL Choke. i was seriously tired when i wrote that and i was totally joking.

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